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A Birthday Celebrated, an Anniversary Celebration Fulfilled, and Other Assorted Adventures in Life…

Personal reflections on this moment in our lives

Sep 22, 2021

A Birthday Celebrated, an Anniversary Celebration Fulfilled, and Other Assorted Adventures in Life…

Sep 22, 2021

An Unexpected Defense of Christian Faith

Christian apologists today typically gather evidences from history or science to make their case. One fourth-century apologist found his…

Sep 17, 2021

An Unexpected Defense of Christian Faith

Sep 17, 2021

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Listen to The Apologetics Podcast!

In this thoughtful but lighthearted podcast, Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey examine evidence for Christianity and talk about the…

Jun 4, 2021

Listen to The Apologetics Podcast!

Jun 4, 2021

The Watchman

A poetic remix of Ezekiel 33:1–20

Jun 2, 2021

The Watchman

Jun 2, 2021

An Infinite Ache and a Neglected Hope

How union with Christ opens the door to infinite delight

Jun 1, 2021

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Jun 1, 2021

How Free Is Your Will?

Do human beings actually possess free will? Does God make your choices or do you? Part of the answer depends on how you define “freedom”…

Mar 23, 2021

How Free Is Your Will?

Mar 23, 2021

Did Emperor Constantine Choose the Books of the Bible at the Council of Nicaea?

How a bizarre medieval tale about a miracle on a communion table evolved into a cultural myth and made its way into the modern mind

Mar 23, 2021

Did Emperor Constantine Choose the Books of the Bible at the Council of Nicaea?

Mar 23, 2021

Which Books Belong in the New Testament — and How Do We Know?

The formation of the New Testament was messier than many Christians seem to think.

Mar 23, 2021

Which Books Belong in the New Testament — and How Do We Know?

Mar 23, 2021

Was Matthew’s Gospel Originally Written in Hebrew?

Two second-century church leaders — Papias and Irenaeus — both testify in their descriptions of who wrote the Gospels that Matthew’s…

Mar 15, 2021

Was Matthew’s Gospel Originally Written in Hebrew?

Mar 15, 2021

What If the Gospels Were Never Meant to Be History?

What if the testimonies preserved about Jesus in the New Testament Gospels were never intended to be taken as historical testimony?

Dec 30, 2020

What If the Gospels Were Never Meant to Be History?

Dec 30, 2020

How Can Presuppositional Apologists Use Classical and Evidential Arguments?

How do the classical arguments for God’s existence fit into presuppositional apologetics? Or do they?

Dec 29, 2020

How Can Presuppositional Apologists Use Classical and Evidential Arguments?

Dec 29, 2020

Were the Stories of Jesus Based on Pagan Parallels?

Is it possible, as some people claim, that the stories of Jesus derive from Pagan myths?

Nov 12, 2020

Were the Stories of Jesus Based on Pagan Parallels?

Nov 12, 2020

Common Notions and Common Ground in the Writings of Cornelius Van Til

The thinking of a Christian and a non-Christian diverges at the most basic level. The believer in Jesus Christ sees all of reality from…

Sep 20, 2020

Common Notions and Common Ground in the Writings of Cornelius Van Til

Sep 20, 2020

When Did Churches Stop Baptizing by Immersion?

As part of my research for the chapter on baptism in a recent book, one of the questions I wanted to answer was, “When did churches leave…

Aug 27, 2020

When Did Churches Stop Baptizing by Immersion?

Aug 27, 2020

How Do We Know Who Wrote the Gospels in the New Testament?

Open your Bible to the table of contents and take a look at the list of books in the New Testament. There, you’ll find the Gospels…

Jul 17, 2020

How Do We Know Who Wrote the Gospels in the New Testament?

Jul 17, 2020

How the Bible Was Used to Support Slavery and to Sustain Those Who Stopped It

For centuries, the Scriptures were twisted and distorted to provide support for racism and race-based slavery.

Jun 19, 2020

How the Bible Was Used to Support Slavery and to Sustain Those Who Stopped It

Jun 19, 2020

Culture: The Long Shadow of Racism in America

The institution of American slavery has been called America’s “national birth defect.” “Black Americans were” — in the words of one…

May 12, 2020

Culture: The Long Shadow of Racism in America

May 12, 2020

Apologetics: Which Canon Contains the Right Books?

Different communities of people who call themselves Christians use different Old Testaments. Here’s what I mean: Everyone agrees about…

Apr 22, 2020

Apologetics: Which Canon Contains the Right Books?

Apr 22, 2020

Apologetics: Did Cornelius Van Til Really Teach that Non-Christians Know Nothing?

Even after reading several thousand pages of Cornelius Van Til’s writings, I do not find his approach or his assumptions to be wholly…

Feb 11, 2020

Apologetics: Did Cornelius Van Til Really Teach that Non-Christians Know Nothing?

Feb 11, 2020

Apologetics: Fragments of Otherwise Unknown Gospels

Gnostic Gospels and other unorthodox texts receive a lot of attention in popular media. The Gospel of Judas and the forged Gospel of…

Nov 26, 2019

Apologetics: Fragments of Otherwise Unknown Gospels

Nov 26, 2019

Timothy Paul Jones

Timothy Paul Jones

Professor. Pastor. Bestselling author of WHY SHOULD I TRUST THE BIBLE?, THE DA VINCI CODEBREAKER, and more. http://www.timothypauljones.com/books/

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